{"id":130313,"date":"2016-08-12T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/130313\/man-beaten-with-iron-rod\/"},"modified":"2016-08-12T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:30:06","slug":"man-beaten-with-iron-rod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/08\/12\/man-beaten-with-iron-rod\/","title":{"rendered":"Man beaten with iron rod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After recently stopping to pick up a few things from a Sunnyridge filling station a man headed home for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>On his way home he realised he was being followed.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe stopped and asked the man why he was following him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accused allegedly claimed that the victim had followed him to work that morning,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It was then that the suspect produced an iron rod and hit the victim on the head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man suffered serious injuries to his head,\u201d Maome said.<\/p>\n<p>Using a description given by the victim, the police were able to trace the 52-year-old accused and he was arrested for assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/130184\/eight-year-old-cousins-found-murdered\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two children murdered, bodies found in unused Germiston building<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/129940\/did-you-witness-this-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\">Did you witness this assault?<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='3be5e5c89d552d2f9929a4feff6cd5d0'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was recently assaulted with an iron rod while on his way home from Sunnyridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":130314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-130313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}